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Watching Kenosha Burn
I’ve never been there, but I feel as if I know it. Kenosha is the size of my home town, a little dot of civilization eked out in short order, built up with pride, home to people who work, worship, and enjoy the pace and pleasures of a small town. It burned last night and it is burning tonight. I’m watching the feeds, and I’m pretty sure someone’s going to get shot. The Marxists are showing up with rifles; there are reports of a militia en route to confront the protestors.
Does Kenosha have a large number of people who want to burn down their town and bring Death to America? I’m thinking they may have imported some people who wished to help out. I’m thinking they’d head up to Fargo if they were needed there. I’m thinking they’d be more than happy to burn downtown Fargo. For justice!
Actually, no; for Revolution! Justice comes later.
Actually, the Revolution is justice! So burning downtown Fargo is, like, a jury returning with its verdict. Totally justice.
The feed of mayhem comes in short bursts on Twitter. I watched videos of rioters showing up with rifles, American flags burned while someone screeched “Death to America.” CNN right now:
MSNBC ‘s homepage at 11:47:
WaPo’s home page has a huge headline:
The sole Kenosha story:
Jacob Blake’s family calls for officer’s arrest, peaceful protest The father of five young children was shot in the back by police, which has left him paralyzed from the waist down.
The “Father of Five” note is interesting, since people who have large families are usually excoriated for killing the planet.
It seems that the destruction in Kenosha is not important. But it is a matter of dire national importance that you think about the Tiki Torch rally in Charleston every day, because those chucking fargleheads were representative of everyone to the right of David Frum. The destruction of Minneapolis neighborhoods was a righteous reaction, if regrettably enthusiastic. But it is a matter of vital concern to the future of our democracy that you remember armed men entering the Michigan state capitol.
We’ve been told that concern over burning down cities amounts to prioritizing mere bricks over lives. This is a popular retort amongst those who reveal they cannot contain two ideas in their head simultaneously. They will charge the National Guard and scream “fascist” with the assumption that they will not be shot by people who value bricks over lives. Then they will throw a brick with the intention of ending a life.
I watched a Kenosha clip that showed a man – as distinct from the males who were rioting – attempting to protect his job from arsonists. He is not a member of the landlord / exploiter class, but he suffers from false consciousness, so he is not subject to consideration as a fellow human being. He is a parasite-adjacent, so it is permissible to kill him. Or at least induce a state of actual unconsciousness. He was struck with a a heavy object, possibly a bottle of cement, and fell to the ground inert. The woman filming the attack laid into the rioters, and said “this is wrong” – whereupon one of the rioters said “We’re trying to protect ourselves.”
Defending yourself against the revolutionaries is an offensive act. And why wouldn’t it be? If the cause is just, anyone who stands in its way has forfeited their right to live.
The man has a broken jaw. The protestor has a broken moral compass. One will heal, and the other will sicken for the rest of her days.
Okay, let me check the feed to see if anyone’s been shot in Kenosha.
Why, yes.
Imagine that.
Can’t tell who shot who, but from the screams and sounds of shock and surprise, it seems that an antifa-associated individual took a round. He is screaming for a MEDIC, like they do in video games, and counting on someone to apply all the tools and techniques of Western Civilization to save him.
He may be crying out for an ambulance. This will be a problem, since some protestors may believe that the ambulance is there to rescue someone on the other side, and will set upon it with rocks and clubs. Someone will have to arrange safe passage and assure the protestors that the ambulance is cool.
Like I said, I don’t live in Kenosha. Never been there. I don’t live in New York. I don’t live in Chicago. I don’t live in Portland. Except that I do, because I am an American citizen. What’s the line? This land is my land, right?
Update: from what I’m reading on Twitter, the rioter was shot by someone defending his business. And I’m thinking about our family business, how my Dad would have run out to protect what he had built, and how they would have thrown a brick at his head. And someone with an iPhone streaming it all live would have shouted WOO, and maybe cursed the way the stream wasn’t uploading to Facebook right away, and taken a drink of fresh clean water from his canteen, wondered if the blood would come off his shoes, and shouted F*CK CAPITALISM before heading off to the next target. What town is this again?
Doesn’t matter. Burn ’em all.
Published in General
Meanwhile the shooter from the video has been arrested.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wisconsin-juvenile-arrested-charged-with-first-degree-murder-for-kenosha-riot-shooting/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=21323218
Wasn’t Congress-critter Ayanna Pressley calling for “unrest in the streets”? Blame it on her. Arrest her for inciting violence.
I suspect that many of these organizations are being funded by Chinese intelligence and that many of the leadership cadre has received training from foreign sources.
The Comintern is back.
I’ve been in Kenosha twice in my life, both about 35 years ago, neither in the downtown area. At the time, it was a small industrial town trying to buck the general decline of such in the Midwest. That could leave a combustible residue as in many such.
Watched some of the videos of the shooting incidents. The one with the guy knocked down and defending with an AR looks righteous to me. Someone aims a round house kick at my head and another approaches with a pistol, they get holes in them. The clip purported to be of an earlier incident may or may not be the same guy, and circumstances are a lot less clear.
If they don’t flood the zone with cops and NG tonight, it’ll be worse. I saw one free-lance reporter embedded with the antifa estimating 80% were from out of town. That’s the kind of thing that leads to first roadblocks on the way into town, and eventually return visits to the attacker’s home bases.
What jury? 98% plea out because they do not have resources to fight.
TGP has a collection of videos. The claim is that the shooter was being chased because he had already shot someone. Hard to believe even the rioters are stupid enough to chase an armed man who has already shown his willingness to shoot people, but one can’t fix stupid.
Link here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/insane-video-17-year-old-suspect-kyle-rittenhouse-identified-kenosha-shooter-jumped-street-rioters-shot-three-people-killing-two-charged-murder/
TGP tends to go overboard on their story headlines, but how many sites put a link to submit corrections at the end of each story?
That’s why it’s a surprise when citizens defend themselves. Most city DAs are Democrats eager to punish self-defense.
TheDonald.win is compiling a lot of information on the Kenosha shooting.
Yes, I do not think BLM understand this. Soon will come a killing time. I am saddened by what I may have to do. I dread it and will avoid it as much as possible but there are only so far that one can be pushed.
Good link, thank you.
Buy ammo.
When black people with violent criminal records and especially when currently holding a lethal weapon in their hand, don’t seem to think anything should happen to them if they refuse to drop the weapon and instead reach into their car when ordered not to, possibly to obtain an even more lethal weapon, POLICE reform is not the issue.
You frequently find Democrat money behind NeverTrump organizations, too.
https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/lincoln-project
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/republicans-for-the-rule-of-law/
Kozak,
Thanks this ought to give us an idea just how small Mr. Soros’s footprints are?! Nice to use the words racial equality, racial justice groups, civic engagement. What this money is really paying for are Marxists/Anarchists creating riots on command. George just writes the checks. I’d suspect it’s like dealing with a contractor. I’ll give you 50% upfront to get organized and when the job is done I’ll give you the other 50%.
Regards,
Jim
To me whats shocking is that more people havent been shot by the reactionaries.
And he’s 17 ( if he were black he would be “a child”) and they charged him with Murder in the First.
Clear video evidence he was shooting in self defense.
Hopefully he becomes Nick Sandman 2.0 and walks away.
Hopefully he gets a defense fund started. I’m in.
I don’t like this word, “reactionaries.” Do you mean those defending their life, liberty, and property?
After getting strong feedback from my fellow Ricochetti, I switched over contributions to Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT).
I am eating outside at my favorite restaurant in Flagstaff, and am wearing my “REPUBLICANS FOR BIDEN 2020” t-shirt. A couple of people have stopped by to say how much they like it.
I think that you are absolutely correct.
I saw an article today by a conservative Arizona State Senator endorsing Biden.
Ari,
Right. Since when do armed psychotics control the streets shouting obscenities and screaming commands at the police? They are attacking innocent bystanders and destroying private property at will. Let me try one more time.
THIS IS NOT A PROTEST. THIS IS A PLANNED RIOT!!! THESE ARE NOT PROTESTORS. THEY ARE TRAINED AND PAID FOR ANARCHISTS!!!
Regards,
Jim
Soros gives a lot of money to radical leftist causes. But I’m not sure his reputation is more deserved than Bezos, Gates, Buffett, or any other leftist biliionaire.
Soros, the claims go, is responsible for people such as Kim Gardner in St. Louis and Leiticia James in New York being in positions of power where they can do great damage.
Gary,
I wish you wouldn’t degrade the Republican brand by associating it with a senile bigot.
Regards,
Jim
How did Kenosha Burning get turned into a Robbins/RVAT thread?
They’re the same people under a different name. You’re giving money to the same group of grifters. I really want you to understand that all these Trump-hating groups you are financing are left-wing shadow groups pretending to be Republican in order to bilk you out of your money. They see you as an ATM, and that’s all. Please don’t give money to these people.
“Conservative.”
He’s on track to give about $1.5 BILLION to leftist causes this year, and while those other rich guys give some money to sketchy people, Soros literally created many of the actual organizations.
You don’t want the Republican brand associated with Joe Biden?
Heck, I don’t even want the Republican brand associated with Gary Robbins!
“With ‘Republicans’ like these, who needs Democrats?”
Are you surprised? It happens all the time here.